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voxie
May 31, 2006, 07:23 PM
The Japanese post is leaked over here (http://psuni.org).

From what I can make out, it says from an insider at "FAMI" (Famitsu magazine?) says that Sega have decided/determined to go for 31st August 2006 for release of PSU.

The post also mentions something about the PS2 Beta being distributed (via game disc presumedly) to 3,000 persons. The Xbox 360 version however, is undecided.

Before anyone argues, yes I found it on a Japanese website, no it's not an official source.

Perhaps someone here can help translate the post better than I did]! http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

Sgt_Shligger
May 31, 2006, 07:27 PM
That huge ass block of japanese text reads:
* * *

 PSU sale day in 8/31 decision!
ファミ it will sell quickly and according to information the sale day of PSU decision probably will put out to 8/31, is. Xbox360 edition is undecided
In addition the preceding experience disk of PS2 edition is distributed to 3000, so is. The β test for the PS2 user we would like to see rubbing, it does, the ょ う?
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hope this helps http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

Inazuma
May 31, 2006, 07:30 PM
i really hope this is true. does anyone have access to famitsu magazine to confirm it does indeed say this?

Polly
May 31, 2006, 07:31 PM
The β test for the PS2 user we would like to see rubbing

They really want people to be excited for this game.

voxie
May 31, 2006, 07:32 PM
I'm hoping to swing pass my Japanese book shop on Friday to find a copy. But I don't know how fast their import stock delivers, lol could be a week.

HiKeRI
May 31, 2006, 08:12 PM
yeah its coming on 31st August 2006 for JP and October 31 for US release

Nuclearranger
May 31, 2006, 08:25 PM
O.o halloween lol

Kyunji
May 31, 2006, 08:45 PM
Hey, that's my birthday. What a coincidence. (It was a one-in-three-hundred-sixty-five chance. That's not so bad, compared to some things...)

Anyways, I can only hope this is true. I'd just be glad to have any sort of release date at all at this point other than "Fall 2006" or "2006"...

zandra117
May 31, 2006, 08:55 PM
I wonder if the halloween event will be up when the US logs in or will they skip that because of it being opening day and they want everyone to see the normal non-holiday stuff.

justinbrady
May 31, 2006, 08:56 PM
i'd like a halloween theme on opening day. =]

Kyunji
May 31, 2006, 09:05 PM
Eh, remember what was said in the E3 interview about the wait between releases for new content. They'll probably have Halloween on November 31st =P

justinbrady
May 31, 2006, 09:08 PM
omg ur right. forgot...thats gonna be funny...maybe jsut maybe they mean like new maps/more actual game play stuff...who knows.

Tystys
May 31, 2006, 09:10 PM
I really hope they get the holidays right if they start doing special things for it.
I don't want to be trick or treating during friggin christmas!

HiKeRI
May 31, 2006, 09:12 PM
You can trick or treat with ol Santa! and Rudolf! wooo

Tystys
May 31, 2006, 09:29 PM
I'ma jack Santa's sleigh, and than do drive bys in it....
It's the perfect crime!

Axios-
May 31, 2006, 09:40 PM
Dammit, if I were getting the PS2 version, I might rub it.

Authenticate
May 31, 2006, 09:59 PM
The holiday stuff for the PSO servers was still on time for us, wasn't it? Why would it be any different for PSU? All they have to do is toggle the effects for that season "on", and it's there. They don't have to add anything new since all the holiday data is probably already on the disks like it was with PSO.

Axios-
May 31, 2006, 10:03 PM
The problem wasn't that it was there; it was that they left it on forever. Seriously, don't hold Halloween up long enough to go straight to Christmas. And oh yes, that wonderful, wonderful wedding music was always a delight.

justinbrady
May 31, 2006, 10:03 PM
its serverside now and if the game were to come out on halloween they would prob focus more on a sucesfful launch then a trick or treat celebration.

Nuclearranger
May 31, 2006, 10:08 PM
That reminds me of that weird al song "The night santa went crasy" lol

Saner
May 31, 2006, 11:45 PM
*Turkey wrestles with pumpkin* http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

blueboy92
Jun 1, 2006, 12:23 AM
The β test for the PS2 user we would like to see rubbing

they got one sick fetish...hahaha j/k =)
i wish i still had my ps2...too bad playin dvd's on it waay too many times converts it into a dvd player T__T

Inazuma
Jun 1, 2006, 01:17 AM
does anyone remember the first days of USA PSOGC? the holloween event was going on.

Tycho
Jun 1, 2006, 01:43 AM
Whoa, nice news. And by the way, voxie, I think your site is just terribly cute. Good luck with it! ^ ^;;

Brus
Jun 1, 2006, 03:27 AM
so who thinks it'll actually come out on time... well I mean on time for THIS release date... then again it's not official but I'm guessing it'll come out 3 months after the official launch date that they announce. So being in America I'm assuming we'll see the game sometime after the Xbox1080, PS5, and the nintendo Doodoo.

voxie
Jun 1, 2006, 06:45 AM
lol @ random stuff about santa and turkeys... o_o

Another twinkle off the PSU grapevine: That the Beta PS2 PSU will contain the first chapter of story mode, as well as full network mode.

It's coming in like soup on a drip...

Sha_Hua
Jun 1, 2006, 07:07 AM
Does chapter 1 mean 'scene 1 - secret in relics'?
Or does 1 chapter contain multiple scenes?

Cause the first scene will give a nice intro into gameplay, but will be far to short to give a good picture of the offline part.

kazuma56
Jun 1, 2006, 12:57 PM
So I HOPE we get it before November, because PSU+PS3+Wii+Zelda:tp = bad timing on sega's part.

Saner
Jun 1, 2006, 01:25 PM
On 2006-06-01 10:57, kazuma56 wrote:
So I HOPE we get it before November, because PSU+PS3+Wii+Zelda:tp = bad timing on sega's part.



dont forget MK Armageddon, Final Fantasy XII and I think 2 other big titles are coming October. Oo;


this might convince Sega to release it in September for U.S. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

scott1114
Jun 1, 2006, 04:43 PM
Why do you all say it'll come out august 31st in JP. Sites only make up this date cuz they rely on stores that need to make up a date for pre-order and import. I didnt see any August 31st on phantasystaruniverse.com so far

BestRAmarEver
Jun 1, 2006, 04:48 PM
On 2006-06-01 14:43, scott1114 wrote:
Why do you all say it'll come out august 31st in JP. Sites only make up this date cuz they rely on stores that need to make up a date for pre-order and import. I didnt see any August 31st on phantasystaruniverse.com so far



True, but take a look at the BlueBurst website. That site is updated so infrequently, its mind boggling.

Play-Asia has had the release date at August 31st for about a month now, and before then it was just set at Pre-order date: TBA. SO I figured Aug 31st is around when the JP version will come out.

scott1114
Jun 1, 2006, 05:06 PM
Yup should at least be this summer, if the release dates for us and jp are going to be really different and they want the game to release here in faal 06

voxie
Jun 1, 2006, 05:31 PM
I am trying to figure out where the August 31st date came from, but my Japanese ain't great.

The source I got it from though, is reliable enough. Of course, noone's going to rest until the official thing.

uhawww
Jun 1, 2006, 06:02 PM
I'll gonna wait for the Famitsu issue...
but so far, I've never seen dates in that publication be wrong, barring something catastrophic.

Also, if I remember some of the screenshots from the last moments of the PSU PC Beta, some players were saying things like 「8月31日よろ」 (C'mon August 31st) and 「8月31日に再度集まろ」 (We'll meet again on August 31) and other iterations of the like...

as if something were revealed back then, which may also explain why some select retailers (Play-Asia for example) changed the release date so much sooner than others.

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voxie
Jun 1, 2006, 07:34 PM
Speaking of Japanese players and Famitsu, I was browsing their site, and found this (http://www.famitsu.com/blog/online/2006/05/post_14.html?ref=art_game) interesting article, on how Japanese players deal with being isolated by English players in online games, quite interesting.

Um, keeping on topic yeah, dude I'm hoping to look up the latest Famitsu tomorrow evening.

Kyuu
Jun 1, 2006, 07:49 PM
I'd just like to point out that on that PSuni site, they also have a link to a very high quality PSU trailer that features some of the English voice acting, here:
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20060523/se3.htm

Scroll down and click on the picture of the screen with a PSU logo, you'll get some sort of compressed file that WinRAR opened for me.

Edit: And after watching that, I don't really like Ethan's voice, but everyone else's is good or at least acceptable. And Brian Sommers definitely did an awesome job with Magashi.

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Ryo_Hayasa
Jun 1, 2006, 08:35 PM
What was that bit about the Beta Disk? was it being given out in the Fami Mag? Or is it being passed out by Sega and etc?

Kyuu
Jun 1, 2006, 10:58 PM
On 2006-06-01 18:35, Ryo_Hayasa wrote:
What was that bit about the Beta Disk? was it being given out in the Fami Mag? Or is it being passed out by Sega and etc?

From the translation, it appears as though the 3000 PS2 beta discs will be rewarded through a lottery by the Famitsu magazine. Sega will likely be passing out the discs, as it's unlikely they decided to turn over handling of a beta to a magazine. The Famitsu lottery is just the vehicle by which they're giving out the limited number of discs.

_Tek_
Jun 1, 2006, 11:31 PM
He's right! I'm from america and the page won't load for me.

Tycho
Jun 2, 2006, 12:19 AM
Check this; they agree on the 8-31 thing.
http://suimasen.sakura.ne.jp/aaaphp/

Saner
Jun 2, 2006, 01:01 AM
that link doesnt work. what do they say?

Asathor
Jun 2, 2006, 01:56 AM
this is the official source:

http://phantasystaruniverse.com/

waiting for US release! Saving money for a computer!!

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Hi,I'm from Taiwan. Yeah, I'm waiting for the US release too http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif



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voxie
Jun 2, 2006, 02:17 AM
Well whaddayaknow, the official Japanese site has also updated. O_O

Wow it's been like over 2 months, about time!

EDIT: Segadairekto has also updated (http://segadirect.jp/Catalog/CustomPages/CustomDetail2.aspx?File=psu.htm), amazing! Comes complete with images of the new Ethan-esque t-shirt and PSU official keyboard! O_O

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Saner
Jun 2, 2006, 03:39 AM
wow looks like the release date is around the corner! http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

BestRAmarEver
Jun 2, 2006, 03:46 AM
About 3 months away from having my hands on my precious JP PSU....

I'm going to play it until I pass out from sleep deprivation. O_O;